화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.114, No.13, 4461-4464, 2010
Synchronously Reduced Surface States, Charge Recombination, and Light Absorption Length for High-Performance Organic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
We employ the 4,4-dihexyl-4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophene (CPDT) segment as a conjugated spacer to construct an extremely high-molar-absorption-coefficient organic chromophore for dye-sensitized solar cells, exhibiting a high power conversion efficiency of 8.95% measured under irradiation of 100 mW cm(-2) AM1.5G sunlight. Our comparative experiments have proved the prominent merit of employing CPDT instead of the prevailing 2,2'-dithiophene (DT) as the building block for the further dye design. We also have demonstrated that a controllable coassembling of dye molecules and electrolyte components on semiconducting nanocrystals can reduce surface states and inhibit charge recombination synchronously.